SPF13

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Hybrid Cloud Computing. Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud. The lack of established standards, multi-tenancy nature and need to be PCI compliant have been three large barriers to entry for any organization exploring this p

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, September 13, 2011. An Image Makeover for IT. Wow. I just have to share notes about a meeting today - one that might have been unthinkable a year or so ago. Ive been working closely with EMCs CIO and internal IT groups lately, helping understand how theyre delivering IT as a Service.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This morning I am giving the external keynote at a closed conference for senior client executives run by a major professional services firm. They know the technical content they are presenting is rather dry so my role is to provide a highly engaging kick-off to the day (spouses are invited too) which is also practical and useful for attendees. As is quite often the case these days, my client asked me to combine two of the topics from my general list of speaking topics , bringing together the ide

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

'Image Credit. There's Something Broken When It Comes To The CIO Position. Don’t look now, but there’s something wrong in the world of CIOs. The CIOs that I’m working with are being asked to do more and more for their companies. It would be fair to say that IT has become an indispensible part of the companies that these CIOs work for.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, September 22, 2011. Being a CIO: One Year Later.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, September 19, 2011. Documenting IT Transformation Since 2005. If you havent looked at how EMCs IT department has transformed itself over the years, you should - its amazingly illustrative. Our CIO, Sanjay Mirchandani is visible and articulate.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

How many LinkedIn requests are you getting? Very likely significantly more than you were getting just a few months ago. LinkedIn reached 100 million users in March. As one of the first 10,000 users, I early on saw the potential of a purely professional social network. It consistently grew in size and user value over the years, however now that everyone is piling on to the LinkedIn bandwagon, the value of LinkedIn personal connections and networks are decreasing at what seems like an accelerating

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A CIO's Voice

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

'Every department needs to develop key performance indicators to measure performance. IT is no exception. In fact, it is probably more important for IT to have a set of KPIs to show overall performance in the business. This supports the mission of IT to add value to the organiztion. For my department I have been tracking the following KPIs. I have been tracking on a weekly basis to keep an eye on trends that may develop.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

'CIOs Need To Treat Stars Just A Bit Differently…. I won’t let the CIOs that I work with make a mistake. When they start to go off in the wrong direction, I grab them by the collar and yank them back on the path to IT glory. Lately I’ve been doing a whole lot of yanking and the reason is that for some odd reason CIOs just don’t seem to understand how to manage their star talent….

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, September 15, 2011. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 2.

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Last week I had the pleasure of attending MongoUK in London. I had a great time presenting and meeting new friends. I even survived two whiteboard sessions where people were invited to ask any question, any at all, about MongoDB. I gave a pretty significatly revised presentation on MongoDB and E-Commerce with emphasis on transactions. If you saw the presentation at MongoNYC this summer, it’s worth a revisit.

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Sean Daniel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, September 08, 2011. Thank you BizTech Magazine – SeanDaniel.com is listed in their top 50 Must Read IT Blogs. I was rather surprised last night to be browsing my @Mentions on Twitter only to find out that @BizTechMagazine listed me as one of the “50 Must-Read IT Blogs” I first saw it when I was mentioned in their tweet.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

On Friday a journalist from the Herald Sun called me to ask for my response to an ‘analysis’ suggesting that $1.4 billion of worker productivity is lost to playing Angry Birds. It seems that my answers turned the story around from what could have been yet another populist headline to Is Angry Birds the new Solitaire or are we flying off the handle a bit too early?

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

'City of Seattle Web Team. Seattle’s City government website www.seattle.gov has been named the #1 City government web portal for 2011 by eRepublic’s Center for Digital Government. I was honored to be with the City’s web team in Hollywood for the awards ceremony on September 16th. Our open data feed, data.seattle.gov received a Digital Government Achievement Award at the same ceremony.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

'True IT Management Talent Is Forged In The Fires Of Challenge. I’ve got some bad news for all of you CIOs out there: it turns out that 25% of the best workers in the IT department are planning on leaving within the next 12 months. Not to depress you even more, but it turns out that those internal job change programs that you have perhaps created that are intended to develop the next generation of IT leaders don’t seem to be working – 40% of the internal rotations that are made by IT

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CIO Rant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Articles, blog posts, tweets, forum comments and presentations spend too much time trying to legitimize the CIO position as business relevant. I have been hearing for years the endless drone of questions about whether the CIO belongs at the “table” with other executives. Others express opinions about whether IT is losing “control” or is being marginalized in some way.

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Nutanix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Back from our first vmworld on the heels of our launch on 8/16, here are some lessons we learned and a highlights video of our experience.

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Sean Daniel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, September 16, 2011. HP/Microsoft do an Extreme Make-Over of a Not For Profit Organization. Earlier this year, I had the pleasure to be able to participate in a very heart warming story. Families For Effective Autism Treatment of Washington (or FEAT WA) , was the first winner of the HP & Microsoft Extreme technical make-over.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This morning I gave the opening keynote for an internal future strategy session at a large insurance company. A group of 40 executives from across the organization, as part of a six month program, are spending two days immersing themselves in thinking about how the structure of the economy could change in the years and decades ahead, and the implications for their business.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

EA still should play the bridge role between business and technology, the goal is to share the knowledge and recognize the optimization point. In the blog: [link] ine-enterprise-architecture-re.html , we pointed out some 20 th century EA’s crucial problems such as lack of clear definition, lack of prioritization and lower level of maturity; ivory tower approach, fragmentation, and over-complexity.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The September issue of Harvard Business Review focused on complexity, with several excellent articles. One of the pieces was an interview with Michael J. Mauboussin , the chief investment strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management, whose investment approach is fundamentally based on understanding complexity. His answer to the last question in the interview was very interesting: What are some of the rules of thumb for getting yourself into the right mind-set to deal with complexity?

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Research company Nielsen has just released detailed statistics on online activity , focusing on social networks and blogging, which at 22.5% of time spent online dominate Internet usage, with more than twice the next category games, at 9.8% of time spent. Below are a few highlights and comments from the full report. Facebook completely dominates the social networking and blogging space, with over 70 times the next most prominent social networking site.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

I recently wrote about social and participative TV , as one of the important aspects of how TV as we currently know it will evolve. Of course, this is not to say that all TV will become social. A key characteristic of the TV format is that it is passive, and that is what many people are looking for. Part of what we need to learn is not just what the mechanisms of effective social TV are, but in what situations it works well.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Today I gave the keynote at an invitation-only meeting of senior executives looking at the future of their industry. My role was to bring perspectives on the broader drivers of change in business. One of the central themes of my keynote was the future of work and organizations. There are of course many facets to this, but one of the fundamentally important ones in considering the future of business and society is in how work is being polarized.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

For many reasons PR (or perhaps rather what PR could be) is close to the center of my interests. As we shift to a world driven by social media and influence networks, arguably the PR industry has the best background and capabilities to help organizations deal with the new challenges and opportunities that are emerging. Yet the PR industry has not markedly prospered relative to adjacent industries, which have muscled in on the new work generated in a rapidly changing landscape. ‘Public rela

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

My post yesterday about Angry Birds and productivity at work: why distractions can help has generated some good discussion. Ever a source of great information, Arie Goldshlager has now pointed me to additional research that supports the National University of Singapore study I pointed to in the article. In this brief video Dr Brent Coker at the Department of Management and Marketing at University of Melbourne presents their research findings on the productivity impact of browsing for fun at work

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The video below shows an interview of me on ABC TV that was made over a month ago, though it aired just last week. Here is the full program of The Consumer Quarter , from which this interview is taken. The focus of the segment was to look at the impact of the launch of Google+ on social networking as a whole, including the possible negative impact of too much choice for social network users.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Chris Espinosa has written a very interesting piece about the Silk browser that comes on Amazon’s freshly announced Fire tablet. The “split browser” notion is that Amazon will use its EC2 back end to pre-cache user web browsing, using its fat back-end pipes to grab all the web content at once so the lightweight Fire-based browser has to only download one simple stream from Amazon’s servers.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Earlier this year I wrote how the US SEC was opening the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism with mooted regulatory changes. Now the US President’s proposed Jobs Bill is explicitly focusing on crowdfunding as a mechanism to support entrepreneurs and startups. A post on the White House’s Office and Science Technology blog titled The President’s American Jobs Act: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship co-authored by U.S.

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